Re: [MLUG] Is it just me or...

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 7:56 am, box191 wrote:
> Some shit disturbers are better than others. Why is it
> that some people don't realize that open source is
> inherently based on a socialist political philosophy?
>
> Win98 and WinXP on my computer read it and use
> it. Rescue disks with Win95, WinNT and Win2000
> can read it. Linux rescue disks can't read it. Knoppix,
> MandrakeMove, SuSE Live, etc., can't read it.

Can you get access to a recent version of PartitionMagic (v.8 is current I 
think)?  Or Linux cfdisk or parted (man cfdisk; man parted), but if you're 
new to Linux, PartitionMagic would be friendlier and maybe (?) better to see 
problems on fat32 partition.

Re. disturbance of shit:  PartitionMagic...I see that the Symantec Blob has 
consumed it.  By version 9 I'm sure it will be excreted in about 7 packages, 
all priced separately.  So by my reckoning, that makes pretty much every bit 
of DOS/Win utilityware that I've ever found worthwhile.  And it all turns to 
crap.  PCTools, CleanSweep, even Norton Utilities used to be good once.   How 
come everybody rants about Micro$oft (which is way too easy, BTW), and even 
Novell, but I see nary a word about Symantec's stealth monopoly?

Dave

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